Midway on June 4, 1942 was a decisive battle of the Pacific War. Lt. Richard Best is in Squadron Six(VB-6) of the USS Enterprise Air flying an SBD Dauntless bomber. The Americans are going up against ...

The 78-year-old aircraft was lifted onto the USS Midway on Wednesday and officially became viewable to the public on Friday. The F4U-4 Corsair was flown by both the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps ...

the Yorktowns were the model for all future U.S. carrier designs. Relatively large, fast, very sea worthy vessels with excellent protection and large aircraft complements, they played an enormous part ...

the U.S. crushed the Imperial Japanese Navy off Midway Island (about 1,300 miles northwest of Honolulu), sinking four of its aircraft carriers. “Midway” referred to the small atoll roughly ...

While the Midway aircraft carrier museum doesn’t ordinarily display replicas, “we had no qualms about displaying this one,” says Walt Loftus, the museum’s airwing director. He adds ...

But 4 June 1942 would see the tide turn, with three US Navy (USN) aircraft carriers waiting in ambush for the IJN near a tiny atoll whose name would become immortalized in history: Midway.

The Navy’s oldest aircraft carrier departed San Diego Bay on Wednesday for what is expected to be its last deployment, USNI News has learned. The 49-year-old USS Nimitz (CVN-68) pulled away from ...